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[Mort-lemur]

Hi,

I have a friend who is looking at setting up a dating site in a niche ex-pat area where she lives.

Is this something that OSC could be adapted for? and is anone aware of any osc sites that have been set up this way?

Many Thanks

[burt]

Unless your friend wants to sell mail-order brides or such, I'd say osCommerce is not the correct software.

Look at datemill.com

[multimixer]

Ahh,

I was just thinking how to handle shipping issues, per weight maybe?

Attributes configuration is also interesting, e.g. blond/brunette or big nose/small nose etc

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

We all have something here in common so we could work on adding a dating site to our website. (and release it as open source of course)

[multimixer]

I know already some good matches, like

Isa and Laurent
Mark and Chris

[altoid]

This is all so special....thank you Heather for planting the seed here that grew into all this.  

[MrPhil]

All joking aside, a dating site would share a few features with a shop. Both take payment (usually an up-front flat fee for a dating site, although some might charge per-match). Both do a search on "product" attributes (gender, age, appearance, interests, location, etc.), but I think you might want a somewhat "fuzzier" search than in a store (e.g., a woman searching for a man 5'8" to 6'0" might accept someone 5'7" if other attributes are a really good match). A dating site might have some sort of personal messaging for prospective dates to find out more about each other, while maintaining anonymity before committing to that first date. Finally, there has to be some sort of "product delivery" to both parties to get them together.

All said, while some of the osC product database and searching might be usable, I think that so much else would have to be changed or customized that osC (or any other general purpose shopping cart) would not be a good base. The search is the biggest, most proprietary part of any dating site, to get the best matches, and the osC search would probably be fairly primitive compared to what's needed.

[multimixer]

@MrPhil

Let's keep things simple: Both, search and charge will be plain and simple by weight !

A man search for a 58kg woman, add her to cart. Same does the woman.

If both have each other in the cart, they get a match message, checkout button appear, they checkout and pay according to weight

Woman pay for 75kg man, man pay for 58kg woman the module exist already.

How about that ?

[MrPhil]

Well, the idea of everyone having a "cart" that they put prospective dates into is kind of interesting, but I don't think it would work out. I put Heather into my cart. It might be quite a while before she happens to put me into her cart. Not that I'm necessarily her 15th choice for a date, but she might not happen to be accessing the dating store for a while. In the mean time, I've found someone else and am dating her, but have forgotten to go back and put Heather back on the shelf... A practical system would have to have one person making the selection, and then the other person is quickly notified and decides if the first person is a reasonably good match for them, and let's arrange a dinner and a movie.

[Biancoblu]

@multimixer

multimixer, on 22 May 2013 - 01:17 PM, said:

I know already some good matches, like

Isa and Laurent
Mark and Chris

Yes......here's an official announcement: Laurent and I are secretly in love with each other

[multimixer]

@MrPhil

Well, I was just joking, but lets keep thinking in this direction

Each user is automatically a product. Upon account creation user enters 2 types of info
1) Private info - that goes to the customers tables
2) Product info - that goes to the product tables

Once someone is added to somebody else cart, he'll receive a notification about that

[multimixer]

Biancoblu, on 22 May 2013 - 03:56 PM, said:

Yes......here's an official announcement: Laurent and I are secretly in love with each other

Wow, such an announcement

I think all you need now is a "add to cart" button?

Now it's time for some personal info to make a proper checkout, please fill out the following form

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weight: [    ]
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(The system is a bit limited at the beginning, more features will be added, but weight is the most important for now, we need to configure shipping/payment)

I like this topic so much !

[burt]

Brown hair, slightly greying.
Green eyes.
Large feet.

Likes anything outdoorsy.
Does not like Dogs.

Too soon ?

[multimixer]

74 kilogramm

Anyone interested ?

Edit: Free shipping in EU

Edited by multimixer, Today, 04:50 PM.

[Mort-lemur]

Im So pleased I asked the question..................